Tuesday, August 26, 2014

8:00pm Hamas Victory in Gaza includes: No Water, No Electricity, 350,000 refugees. All they get is the opening of the humanitarian conveys via the border crossings with israel (which Israel keeps open anyway).

There will be discussions about an air/sea port for Gaza, but nothing is promised.

Israel will discuss the demilitarization of Gaza, but nothing is promised.

The cease fire has no stated end point.********************************************************************************************************8pm Antisemitism in New York Jewish couple attacked...

********************************************************************************************************7:46pm Channel 2 reports 1 Israeli killed and 2 seriously wounded in an Israeli Gaza border community (in the Eshkol region) from the mega rocket fire over the past hour. (before the 7:15 ceasefire started)********************************************************************************************************7:43pm Ceasefire seems to have started. The Egyptian plan says Israel must immediately open up the border crossing points.

Over the next month discussions of the following:Israel demands the demilitarization of GazaHamas demands a (duty free weapons bonanza) sea port.********************************************************************************************************7:34pm Roundup for past 25 minutes:

7:15 Eshkol7:14 Eshkol7:09 Shaar HaNegev

Hamas claims cease fire has started. Reports of Gaza celebrations.

Channel 10 reports that the IDF has been instructed to stop attacking Gaza (I didn't notice what we were attacking).

********************************************************************************************************7:10am Terror target hit in Gaza last night by IAF airstrike....see building before and after photos of a 13 story building terror target.

6:57am As we wait for reports on the previous rocket strike....here are where the sirens went off...6:47am At 6:32am minutes ago...there was a simultaneous, large scale rocket attack on Israel....Ashkelon....Ashdod...Tel Aviv...Herziliya...Hod Ha Sharon...Yahud (near the airport)...Savyon...Rosh Haayin...Shoham...

Direct hit reported on a building in the Ashkelon area....emergency forces responding.********************************************************************************************************

1:10am Nature abhors a vacuum.

If no one else is going to take the lead in fighting Islamic terrorism, then some of the more unlikely players are going to step up to bat.

********************************************************************************************************12:35am After consulting with the IDF, the Kiryat Shmona municipal council has decided against opening public bomb shelters and requesting for the public to stay in shelters.

I guess the IDF was convincing in whatever they said...********************************************************************************************************12:07pm Egypt has put forward a proposal for a 1 month ceasefire, to begin at 7am on Tuesday. Reportedly, Hamas has embraced the plan, and they are waiting for Netanyahu to respond.

There has been no comment fro Jerusalem on this story.

During the ceasefire, Israel and Hamas would continue to negotiate.

1 month from now, when the ceasefire would end (presuming that Hamas doesn't break the ceasefire earlier) is Rosh Hashana.********************************************************************************************************

Monday, August 25, 2014

********************************************************************************************************11:26pm The IDF has not given any directives regarding the security situation in Northern Israel.

The Kiryat Shmonah municipality has taken the initiative and requested that all residents stay in protected areas, and that all public bomb shelters be opened.********************************************************************************************************11:20pm Update: 2 confirmed Katyusha rockets were fired earlier from Lebanon. IDF originally thought only 1 was fired. This may be the source of the reports that the siren didn't go off for second rocket.

Northern residents may have confused IDF shelling with incoming rockets (as there have been additional reports of loud explosions throughout northern Israel, and they may have thought it was an additional attack, without warning sirens)********************************************************************************************************

10:45pm I wish there was a way to write this in Jackie Mason voice...

OK, just pretend you hear Jackie Mason tawking,

"Oy... I say tank God for de Republican gentiles. You know, if de evangelicals didn't fight for de Jews, da Jews would never know they have a right to defend temselves..."

This morning an unidentified gunman opened fire in the Taibe Amal PolyTech high school, killing the principal, Yusef Haj-Yichye in front of his teaching staff. The gunman fired 5 bullets and fled.

An ambulance took the principal to the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba where he was pronounced dead.

Haj-Yichye was the principal of the school for many years, and
announced that he would be running for mayor of Taibe in the next
municipal election.

Haj-Yichye was also considered to be one of
the main reasons that the Taibe Amal Polytechnic-multidisciplinary
school consistently improved and that the student body's academic
achievements routinely rose from year to year.

********************************************************************************************************12:49pm
And the "cease fire" talks are allegedly on again....with an Egyptian
brokered cease-fire possibly scheduled for this evening. Israel has
refused to comment...********************************************************************************************************12:34pm Israeli Study -- Moderate consumption
of alcohol (social drinking) can reduce anxiety and depression related
to terror and war, according to an American-Israeli study which explored
this link among Israelis during the 2008 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.

This sort of drinking must be done in moderation -- to prevent people from running into a closet instead of the bomb shelter.

Last night the IAF hit 35 targets in Gaza including 2 terrorists shooting rockets at the Gaza border communities.

Additionally, 2 mosques were attacked by IAF airstrikes: one was used as a weapons storage facility and terror center. The other was a North Gaza terror coordination center and meeting place for terrorists.********************************************************************************************************2:28am Are we in a secret ceasefire?

http://www.jewishpress.com/cartoons/the-difference-between-hamas-and-isis/********************************************************************************************************1:39am Hamas knows what goes in and out of all the legal crossings and smuggling tunnels in Gaza. They know when Gazans are crossing into Israel. This attack on Erez today was timed to hit their own people and their Israeli-Arab relatives.